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  1. Kurth Wertheimer postcard

    One original postcard written by donor's grandparents to Kurth Wertheimer (aka Raanan Galilee) while he was recuperating in a hospital.

  2. Print 7, Deby z Teki Bialowieskiej, trees

    Print 7 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  3. Ruins in Munich

    Views of Munich, probably postwar [film stock dates to 1943]. Street scenes show destroyed buildings and piles of rubble. Short clip of the Bürgerbräukeller, the site of the Beer Hall Putsch where Adolf Hitler and the Kampfbund attempted a coup d'état in 1923. 01:01:02 John Bechtler gets into an army truck (labeled 206008425.) A brief clip of a black dog in the grass. Views of a lake and the surrounding landscape. 01:01:49 (John?) exits a CIC building. The CIC, or Counter Intelligence Corps, was used after the war to locate former members of the Nazi regime and combat various forms of illeg...

  4. Ruth Ronner collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and other materials documenting the Baumgart family in Breslau, Germany and Ruth Ronner's emigration from there to New York in 1937.

  5. Print 3, Fara w Chelmnie na Pomorzu, a building in Pomerania

    Print 3 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  6. Fran Prager photograph collection

    Seven staged images of Adolf Hitler speaking, taken by Heinrich Hoffmann in the 1920's. The photographs were entrusted to Fran Prager by an employee who worked as a secretary to Ms. Prager.

  7. Occupation of the Ruhr by the French

    French troops occupy the Ruhr area. A scene shot from a window shows a large crowd on the street and French troops on horseback. Shot of a French tank. A title reads: "Germany's most important economic region is harrassed by heavily armed negroes." An image of a French African troop is superimposed over scenes from the Ruhr. A crowd of unemployed Germans in the street.

  8. Gabriel Lawit collection

    Consist of nine original photographs relating to the donor's family in Łódź, Poland before the war; one letter written by the donor's father to his wife, written on an official letter by his supervisor, dated 1940, in Novoshtice, Bielorussia.

  9. Irma Morgenstern Grundland collection

    Contains an identity card, documents, and photographs concerning Irma Grundland's postwar life in Poland.

  10. Thomas Lugosi collection

    Collection consists of two photographs, one of Thomas Lugosi with a friend and one of Lugosi with his father.

  11. Eva K. Wolman Unterman collection

    Collection of four postcards and 64 photographs of the Kafeman family, taken by Gustawa Jacheta Kafeman, [maternal grandmother of Eva Unterman, donor], when she immigrated to Palestine from Łódź, Poland in 1930's. She returned for a family visit in July 1939 and was forced into the ghetto, deported to Auschwitz and Stutthoff in August 1944, where she was murdered. These photographs were given to donor by her cousin in Israel.

  12. Gertrude Laufer collection

    The Gertrude Laufer collection include an identification card and a letter. The identification card (Foreigners' Resident Certificate) was issued to Gertrude Brück upon her arrival in Shanghai in 1939 from Vienna. The letter written by Margarethe Braun Mittler (Gertrude Laufer’s aunt) from the ghetto in Opole, Poland to a friend in Vienna, Austria, in November 1941 and describes the poor health and subsequent death of her mother. Margarethe was born in 1901 and is believed to have perished in 1942 in the Belzec or Sobibor killing centers in Poland.

  13. Central Historical Commission : Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp (M.1.D)

    The collection contains the central card index of camp, payment cards, and correspondence of the camp administration.

  14. Moshe and Chana Batista collection

    Collection consists of two photographs depicting the Batista family which survived the Holocaust in Transnistria, in Tropova concentration camp. Two of the donor's younger brothers died of hunger and exposure.

  15. Green velvet monogrammed tallit pouch buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding

    Velvet tallit pouch buried for safekeeping with other religious items by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. A tallit is a prayer shawl worn by Jewish males for prayer services, It originally belonged to her husband, Bernhard, who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. She brought it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and soon there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewish landlady who hid her in her attic. In Dece...

  16. Torah

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35054
    • English
    • 1932
    • Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) overall: Height: 135.380 inches (343.865 cm) | Width: 4.620 inches (11.735 cm)

    Miniature Torah preserved by Johanna Baruch Boas while living in hiding in Brussels, Belgium. The Torah belonged to her husband, Bernhard, and was possibly used while traveling. Bernhard died in Berlin in 1932. Johanna carried it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939, with her daughter’s family. The Germans occupied Belgium in May 1940 and enacted punitive anti-Jewish legislation. Soon they were deporting Jews to concentration camps. Johanna buried the yarmulke and other religious items to keep them safe during the occupation. Johanna survived with the help of her n...

  17. Antisemitic signs during an NSDAP gathering

    Streets in Merseburg bedecked with swastika flags. Two signs hang above the streets. One invites citizens to come to the Party gathering to be held on the 24th and 25th of August. The other, larger, sign states that anyone who buys from Jews is a traitor. In the next scene, several people stand in front of a Der Stuermer kiosk, reading the newspapers posted inside the case. Another sign hanging over the street: Ein Jud und ein Laus ist wie die Pest im Haus [One Jew and one louse is like the plague in the house].

  18. Roza Chodik photograph collection

    Collection consists of two photographs depicting Roza Chodik with her paternal uncle's family immediately after the war in Szczecin, Poland in 1946. In these photographs, Roza is standing aside during the birthday party of her cousin Shaye, whom she knew as her brother.

  19. Filming of the 1942 Theresienstadt propaganda film

    Scenes from the filming of a 1942 film about Theresienstadt. Interior of a crowded coffehouse with a band playing on stage. Star of David badges are visible on clothing. A man sits down at a table with his young daughter and a waitress serves them coffee. The scene is repeated. Shots of the band and people in the audience. The next scene shows a man leaving the coffeehouse. A sign on the door states that entrance cards must be presented when entering and leaving the coffeehouse. An outdoor shot of a uniformed German with a camera filming two signs. Two other Germans accompany him. A close u...

  20. The Striker, Number 32, August 1938, 16th year 1938 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Der Stuermer, dated August 1938, Number 32, anti-Semitic newspaper published by Julius Streicher.